Robert Southey Quotes

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.

You can have a five-page speech, and if the camera's not looking at you, you're not there.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

I wonder what my speech would be.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.